Upgrading (or Not) from MSI nVidia 5600 to ATI X800XT

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by wwswimming, Oct 22, 2005.

  1. wwswimming

    wwswimming Guest

    I bought it. I installed it. I took it out and put the old one in -
    because the old one was faster.

    In 2002, the MSI card won an award from Tom's Hardware. I waited for
    the price to come down, and bought it.

    It works good, but slows down with large geometries (e.g. Solidworks
    part bigger than 15 MB).

    I bought the ATI card, the "All-in-Wonder" thing with the TV tuner on
    the card.

    Strangely, the ATI card scores much higher than the older MSI card on a
    game benchmark (Aquamark 3, 60,000 for the ATI, 20,000 for the MSI).

    But - so what ? In practice, the ATI card is dramatically slower.

    I went to the Solidworks website to see if there was a
    Solidworks-specific driver or something.

    The installation procedure on the new ATI card was glitch-free, that
    is, "plain vanilla".

    In the short term, it's back to the nVidia 5600 card.

    The rest of the system - Pentium 4 3 GHz, Seagate Serial ATA 120 GB
    drive, 4 x 512 Mushkin low-latency (2-2-2-5) memory.

    Questions -
    * Is there a trick to installing the ATI card, where you deviate from
    the default procedure, to make it work for Solidworks ?
    * What other recent-vintage video cards are Solidworks users using ?

    Thanks !
     
    wwswimming, Oct 22, 2005
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